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Searches are
NOT case sensitive.

Singular words
usually have more success than plurals.

Do NOT use punctuation
(, .) or quotation marks (' ").

Separate each
word with a space.

Enter words that apply to the type of images you're
seeking. Choose one of the following 6 criteria
from the adjacent pull-down menu to indicate how
those words are to be applied to the search. Choose
wisely for a successful search. Default is "ALL
of these words".

ALL of these words is
like saying the results must have this AND that.
A search for tiger shark will have tiger
shark pictures and also include sand tiger shark
pictures, however, the search won't bring up
pictures of tigers (land mammal) or any other
species of sharks. The results must have this
and that. Results showing one or the other won't
do, you want both.

ANY of these words is
like saying the results can have one OR the other
of the words you entered. A search for tiger
shark will bring all pictures that contain
either the word tiger or shark.
The search will bring up all species of sharks
and all species of tiger including the land mammal
such as Bengal tigers. Results showing either
one are fine.

This EXACT PHRASE means
you want the exact words you've entered in that
exact order. Entering sand tiger shark will
find only sand tiger shark pictures, not tiger
sharks and not any other sharks.

Words that BEGIN
WITH seeks images with descriptions
that have words beginning with the combination
of letters you enter. Entering air finds
words like airplane, airport, airbrush and
air-conditioner.

Words that END
WITH seeks images with descriptions
that have words ending with the combination
of letters you enter. Entering air finds
words like hair, stair, debonair and eclair.

Words that CONTAIN seeks
images with descriptions that have words containing
the combination of letters you enter. Entering air finds
words like airplane, stair, stairway and millionaire.

This type of search allows you to enter any words,
partial words, or series of words. While providing
the most freedom, it's also a hit and miss system.
It checks both the image caption and the keywords
for those entries containing your exact combination
of words or letters. It may find images with words
entered in an image caption, but not entered into
its keywords, and vice versa.

This open vocabulary search may also produce inappropriate
matches. For example, a search for tiger shark will
locate both pictures of tiger shark species and
sand tiger shark species. In this case, you can
type in "sand" in the Without
these words cell to eliminate sand
tiger shark pictures from your tiger shark search.

Choose number of images
per page from the pull-down
menu to suit your connection speed or monitor
size.

Limit your criteria if you do not want to be swamped
by thousands of pictures. Marine life is our specialty.
If you search general criteria like shark, dolphin,
or fish you may receive hundreds of pages
of results. You will get something more manageable
by searching tiger shark, bottlenose
dolphin, or flying fish. Be very
specific.

Picture of Kemp’s
ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys
kempii, Endangered Species,
found in Gulf of Mexico and Western
Atlantic Ocean.

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